Heading Overseas? Schedule a Travel Medication Appointment With Our Team First

Our world has never been more connected, and travel is a big part of that. In 2024 alone, more than 53 million Americans took to the skies and seas to travel abroad.

Given the time and money you commit to travel, it’s important to make sure that everything goes smoothly. One great step in this direction is covering your health bases in advance.

At Forest Urgent Care, Dr. Waiho Lum and Dr. Ping Wong offer comprehensive travel medication services to make sure that you’re protected and prepared for your travel overseas. Here, we provide a guide to what we offer through this service to help you embark on your trip with more peace of mind.

Protecting yourself through travel medication

If people have learned anything from the recent hantavirus scare on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, it’s that conditions vary around the world. While certain viruses and threats are nonexistent in one country, they may be prevalent in another.

For example, mosquito-borne malaria isn’t really a danger in the United States, but the same can’t be said of many travel destinations, especially those in Africa, Central and South America, and Southeast Asia. We offer medications that can protect against malaria.

Other conditions that we can protect against include:

• COVID-19, RSV, flu, and other respiratory viruses
• Typhoid
• Yellow fever
• Tuberculosis

You can find a good resource to help you identify potential threats at your destination here. And if there's a vaccination or medication available for that specific threat, we can provide that to you.

Assembling your travel kit

Another important piece to your travel wellness puzzle is make sure you have the right medical supplies on hand when you travel. You can’t always access the same medications and products abroad, so it’s always a good idea to have a basic medical kit on hand that includes:

• Antibiotics
• Diarrhea medications
• Diabetes medications (if applicable)
• Asthma medications
• Bandages
• Prescription medications (keep these in their original bottle)
• Condoms
• Decongestants
• Santizer
• Insect repellent
• Water purification tablets

These are just examples of what you might include, but you should tailor your travel first-aid kit to your family’s and your needs specifically. 

Also, if you have a medical bracelet, it’s important to bring that, as well as any other important information about your health that a foreign medical provider might need to know if something happens.

Have a safe, healthy trip

During your travel prep visit at Forest Urgent Care, we’d be happy to review which supplies you should have on hand when you voyage overseas. We can also provide you with any important health documentation you might need.

And the sooner you get this travel preparation done, the more peace of mind you’ll have as you embark on your adventure overseas. 

For a travel medications visit with our team, you can schedule an appointment or walk into our clinic in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. We’re open seven days a week.